The batteries that power everything from mobile phones to electric vehicles have changed our lives, especially in the current age of a global pandemic. The technology of lithium-ion batteries are built on decades of studies and a variety of expertise around the world, and will progress in the days to come.

Sea star wasting disease is a viral epidemic that absolutely destroyed many of the sea star populations off the Pacific coast of North America a few years ago, and what we learn from this viral outbreak in sea stars may provide insight into other infectious diseases

What are the effects of chronic vaping on the respiratory immune system? Using a mouse model, the authors showed that vaping decreases respiratory immune responses to viral infection, which could have implications for susceptibility to COVID-19 in people who vape.

Methods of mathematical modeling can connect us across time and space from today’s headlines of a COVID-19 pandemic to models of magnetism explored in a nearly one-hundred year old doctoral dissertation.

A supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.